Ernie Johnson Gave His Sports Emmy Award To Stuart Scott’s Daughters

[Ernest Thorwald “Ernie” Johnson, Jr. (born August 7, 1956):]Source: LYBIO.net
Uh…this is my lovely wife Cheryl. We’ve been married – we’ve been married for 32 years and about to become a grandparents for the first time later this month. Our life is great.

Uh…I mean, let me just say something…uh…

Every time I get mentioned with that crew of guys who do this, I’m so humbled by that and recently been humbled by the fact that the folks at ESPN, at ‘E:60,’ who saw fit to profile our family. We’ve adopted four kids and have a child at home on a ventilator who is twenty-six. But, this is a – this is to salute to ESPN for reaching out to somebody who works at another network and saying, ‘We’d like to do this,’ and we were blown away by it.

As for this [Emmy Award], there is only one place it belongs and that is on the mantle of Stuart Scott’s house, so if the girls could come up, please. This is not for me. ——

[Ernie Johnson:]Source: LYBIO.net
Come on up. Hey look….look, I…Look, like a lot of people in this room, I love your dad. And having gone through cancer, he and I would text back and forth and I would just tell him, and I tell this to Shelley [Smith] the same thing. You may have cancer, but it doesn’t have you and you just fight and you just lean in on people who love you. We love Stuart Scott. This is your Emmy. They wanna hear from you.

[Taelor Olivia Scott:]
My name is Taelor Olivia Scott and we just wanted to say how grateful we are to the National Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences and also to Mr. Johnson for acknowledging our father in a way that you know, we don’t understand the gravity of because he’s just our dad, but we – we’re honored to be able to be here because he can’t be here so thank you.

[Sydni Scott:]
I’m Sydni, and we would also like to thank our ESPN family for making sure that we could be here on this special night. It means so much to us to be able to be here to accept this award so just thank you.